Doing Better Together

Purpose and Growth Initiatives provides job skills and employment to people who are underserved in the Australian employment market such as refugees, veterans, and once-troubled young people. Godfrey Hirst sources 100% of its spiral wound cardboard cores (for Broadloom carpet rolls) from Purpose and Growth Initiatives. The stable, recurring revenue from this partnership supports P&G’s mission and employment ambitions.

Godfrey Hirst’s workplace giving program aims to support the Give Where You Live Foundation’s core programs such as GROW (G21 Opportunities for Work), Feed Geelong and a major emergency relief voucher program. The Foundation works to ensure grants of over $1.2 million are allocated to assist over 50 organisations that deliver programs across Geelong addressing the effects of disadvantage.

Take 3 delivers education programs in schools, surf clubs and communities around Australia. Take 3 educators raise awareness of plastic pollution and explore simple actions to prevent it. They have educated over 350,000 students from 400+ schools and counting.

The Envision Hands project recycles plastic bottle lids bound for landfill and turns them into colourful, super hero hands for children in need in Australia and around the world! Godfrey Hirst staff volunteers set up a collection point in the office and drove employee awareness. Over 5 million caps were collected in Victoria, and Envision is now focused on processing the tops into bespoke hands.

To engage employees on the topic of plastic waste, Godfrey Hirst is eliminating single-use plastic containers in its headoffice, across product types such as laundry liquid, stain remover, dishwashing liquid/tablets, hand wash, multi-purpose cleaner, shower cleaner, toilet cleaner and air freshener. Reusable containers, repurposed from ocean plastic, will be used and refilled through a closed loop system.